Poverty Measurement: The Development of Different Approaches and its Techniques

Nunes, Celso Pereira

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1272570

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Poverty Measurement: The Development of Different Approaches and its Techniques

Celso Pereira Nunes

CEEAplA

August 31, 2008

ECINEQ WP No. 2008-93

Abstract:
This work concentrates in the fundamental ideas that constitute the existing theoretical framework of the poverty measurement from the 1960's to the state-of-the-art, with an extended comment on the more relevant issues, the presentation of more influencing approaches and the probable path of future research in Poverty Economics.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 44

Keywords: Approaches, Poverty Measurement, Techniques

JEL Classification: B49, I32

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Date posted: September 24, 2008 ; Last revised: November 4, 2008

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Nunes, Celso Pereira, Poverty Measurement: The Development of Different Approaches and its Techniques (August 31, 2008). ECINEQ WP No. 2008-93. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1272570 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1272570

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